Fence-post.



G. D. VORIS.

FENCE POST.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 17. 1909.

Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

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CLIFFORD D. VORIS, OF CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

FENCE-POST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

Application filed May 17, 1909. Serial No. 496,449.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CLIFFORD D. Voms, a citizen of the United States, residingcat Crawfordsville, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana. have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fence Posts, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention produce a light, strong and inexpensive post for fences, especially wire fences.

It consists in a post constructed of corrugated sheet metal, having various peculiarities of construction, resulting in certain advantages, as will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

which are made a part hereof, and onwhich similar reference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a front elevation ofa fence post constructed in accordance with my said invention; Fig. 2 an edge elevation of a fragmentthereof, showing how the fence wires are attached thereto; Fig. 3 a'horizontal sectional view, illustrating the form and construction of that portion of the 0st above ground, and Fig. 4 a horizonta sectional view at the point indicated by thebroken line i l, illustrating the form and construction of that portion of the post below the ground.

As indicated most clearly in the cross sectional views, this post is substantially semicircular in cross section. The ortion below ground is double thickness, being composed of parts 21 and 22, and is corrugated longitudinally, as-best shown in Fig. 4, for purposesof strength and stifi'ness, and the edges of one part are folded over the edges of the other part. The portion 31 above ground is corrugated circumferential and preferably ,tapered, being largest at he bottom and smaller at the top. At intervals along-the is to edges, small perforations 32 are formed, through whichthe fence wires 33 may pass. Slits are cut from these perforations to the edge; and, in i'nsertin the wires, the lips thus formed are turns down, the wires inserted, and the lips then bent back to their former position, so that the wires are substantially entirely inclosedthe effect being the same as though the Wires passed directly through the solid metal of the 0st.

Having thus fully describe my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is,

1. A fence post composed pf corrugated sheet metal and semi-circular in cross, section, the corrugations in that portion above ground being circumferential of the post, and the corru ati'ons below ground being longitudinal o the post.

2. A fence 0st composed of corrugated sheet metal and semi circular .in cross section, the corrugations'in that portion above the ground being circumferential of the post, -and the corrugations below the ground being longitudinal of the post, the lower portion which extends below ground being of'double thickness, with the edge of one thickness folded over the edge of the other thickness.

3. A fence post composed of sheet metal, semi-circular in cross section, that ortion above the. ground being tapered from ottom to top and corrugated circumferentiallfi'and a suitable base arranged to extend belowthe ground.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Crawfordsville Indiana, this-fourteenth day of May, A. one thousand nine hundred and nine.

CLIFFORD D. VORIS. [1,. s]

Witnesses:

BRUCE HAINES, ROBERT H. Qnssnn. 

